Die starke Abhängigkeit von exogen determinierten Zuständen der Welt (Wetter, Krankheiten, Schädlinge etc.) ist konstituierendes Element der meisten landwirtschaftlichen Produktionsprozesse. Während diese Zustandsabhängigkeit auf der einen Seite eine Unsicherheitssituation entstehen lässt,...

Risk management has become a central issue in sanitary crises. Agro food firms have devised organizational responses to sanitary risks, usually implying better traceability. European Regulation 178/2002 established mandatory traceability. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the European...

Traceability and labelling are required by European regulation for food produced from GMOs. For this regulation one of the main advantages of traceability consists in providing information that should allow the precise withdrawal of products from the production process. This paper tests this...